The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-04-16
FACT AND FANCY.

paved with granite.
The locomotive works at Boston have more
orders than the mechanics can oil.
"Mamma, SAINT say amen any more. Doc
won't know who II is. | sail say little dirl. v
Thirty-six telegraph offices have been open
ed in China since the first of the present
month.
-Four hundred people will take part in the
production of 'Lohengrln" at the Eden
theater, In Paris next month.
Episcopal Mother (catechising her children)
"What is the outward sign or visible form OF
baptism" Little Girl Of Seven: 1.-THE baby
When woman leaves her high hat outside,
only to find herself seated behind another
woman who hasn't, she doesn't repeat the
performance.
There are a thousand undertakcrs in New
York, and only seven hundred bodies week
for them TO bury-less than corpse n week
for each man in the trade.
"Ncw York contains 2G5O0 acres, 1900 of
which are on the island of Manhattan. This
is about ~ square miles. Brooklyn covers
1887 acres, about % square miles.
Clergyman Ito dying man: "Be joyful,
brother, you will soon be in a better place"
Dying Bostonian "Tbc ideal Why, dear sir,
YOU can't have seen Boston at all. You've just
arrived by rail, suppose
A Milwaukee girl fell from roof and lit in
snow bank. care Won hurtl" asked gen
tleman who hurried to her relief. "Not Bit
was the reply $40 you suppose | have been
tobogganlng all winter for nothing"
Maude-Who is that ELECTORAL countl Fan
nie-What COUNT | don't know Who do
YOU mean! Maude-Nethcr do l. only !
heard papa say something about congress hay
ing put the electoral count in good shape.
man with wonderful beard has been at.
tracing attention in Runnels county, Texas.
II is alleged he ties II abont his neck for Il
muller, uses 1t as chest-protcctor, and curls
up under it at night instead of using blan-
kets.
Juno, the dromcdary that has formed one Of
the attractions at the Woodward's garden
menageric, San Francisco, Cal, for many
years, died at that place on Friday. She was
81 years old, and leaves fine halfgrown
calf to represent her.
Young Mother-What do you think OF the
little darling, Maj. Boots Maj. Boots-Wel-
er-isn't he rather smalli Young Mother IRE.
proachfully) He is only two weeks old, you
know Maj. Boots (hastily)-Y-e-es, know
III meant small for his age.
She-Where are you going, Charley. He
Going to the theater. She-Ahl understand
The ballet. But why don't you 20 TO the dog
show nsteadi / think you would like 1t ever
so much better. The dogs, you know, have
four-twice as many each, as the ballet
ancers.
To meet the growing scarcity Of whalebone
and its consequent increased cost, various
substitutes have been brought forward.
Among the most recent is the employment of
geese and turkeys quilts, frctory for this
kind of manufacture having been established
in Michigan.
A gentleman annoyed by a domino who fol.
lows him obstinateH: "Scat, get out, old
cat.n The domino removes her mask and
calculates in tone furious with Indignation:
''NIonseurl How dare your sob, begpar
don" replied the other, shut was convinced
that you was my wife,
"And now,n concluded the revivalist, "lf'
there is anyone here who wants TO ask any
question, LET him be heard.n "rd like to
know" said an old, bald-hcaded sinner, rising
10 his back seat, show many marbles have been
dropped on my head by those scaawags in the
galleryi Pm no pavement
Last week pack-horsc fell over the grade
IA. II 4,
snowy embankment three thousand feet TO
the North Yuba river. A few days later,
when James Miller was coming down with
band OF cattle. he saw the poor animals pre-
and rescued II alive with its load.
Another change In the tastes OF the book
loving public has been discovered by the acute
English publishers. Instead OF the dry char.
acter-p lcturlng fiction, the age demands a
more vigorous and more imaginative form OF
literature The demand Is for novels of in
rident, novels OF the romantic school There
Is = reaction against the aesthetic school, a
novel must be extremely good OF which ten
thousand copies are sold
White aprons land aprons on childreu's
nurses have become common, writes the New
York correspondent Of The Cmcinfdh En-
quirer. Therefore the swell mother sends her
offspring out for an airing with a newly
dressed servitH. Her bonnet is stylish, her
bodice Is fitted like a glove, her skirts are
gracefully draped, and her feet are in French
heeled CATERS, but conspicuous badges Of her
mental calling are a dead.wbite collar and
equally clean but glossless cuffs. These i'm
part the desired singularity, and at the same
time are new.
"The oldest rat in the barn." as EzeLial
Donegan is called am ong his associates in the
Illicit stills near Atlanta, Ga, has Just disiin.
yuished himself in manner which may prove
lisasirnns 10 himself nnnnnnan Il sly feet